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obscurant, n. and a.|ɒbˈskjʊərənt|
[= Ger. obscurant (18th c.), f. L. obscūrānt-, pr. pple. of obscūrāre to darken, obscure: cf. mod.F. obscurant (Littré).]
A. n. One who obscures; one who strives to prevent inquiry, enlightenment or reform.
1799W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 597 On their adversaries they endeavour to impose the names of Finsterlinge, Obscurants, or Bedarkeners. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) II. 153, I will venture to appeal to these self-obscurants whose faith dwells in the Land of the Shadow of Darkness. 1831Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 211 The obscurants of that venerable seminary resisted only the more strenuously every effort at a reform within Cologne itself. 1900E. Clodd in Literary Guide 1 Nov. 164/2 Here..the battle between the psychological evolutionist and the theological obscurant still rages.
B. adj. That obscures or darkens; of or belonging to an obscurant: see A.
1878Grosart Introd. to H. More's Poems 46/1 Recondite and obscurant speculation. 1879G. Meredith Egoist I. v. 67 All around, she was yielding her hand to partners—obscurant males whose touch leaves a stain. |